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Sen. Durbin accuses FBI nominee Kash Patel of directing bureau firings

By Jeremy Roebuck, Perry Stein
Feb 11, 2025 1:34 pm - A top Democratic leader weighing Kash Patel’s nomination for FBI director accused him Tuesday of directing a purge of career officials and later perjuring himself in Senate testimony by saying he had no knowledge of any plans for dismissals.
Trump ally Steve Bannon pleads guilty and avoids jail time in border wall fraud case

By MICHAEL R. SISAK
Feb 11, 2025 1:26 pm - Steve Bannon pleaded guilty on Tuesday to defrauding donors to a private effort to build a wall on the U.S. southern border, ending a case the conservative strategist decried as a “political persecution.”
After meeting with Trump, Jordan’s king says his country opposes displacing Palestinians in Gaza

By ZEKE MILLER and CHRIS MEGERIAN
Feb 11, 2025 1:22 pm - President Donald Trump hosted Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House on Tuesday and renewed his insistence that Gaza could be emptied of all residents, controlled by the U.S. and redeveloped as a tourist area — a plan that could likely only work if the Arab nation agrees to accept more refugees.
Netanyahu threatens to resume fighting in Gaza if hostages aren't released Saturday

By JOSEF FEDERMAN
Feb 11, 2025 1:19 pm - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday threatened to withdraw from the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and resume its fight against Hamas if the militant group does not go ahead with the next scheduled release of hostages on Saturday.
27 religious groups sue Trump administration to protect houses of worship from immigration arrests

By DAVID CRARY
Feb 11, 2025 8:30 am - More than two-dozen Christian and Jewish groups representing millions of Americans — ranging from the Episcopal Church and the Union for Reform Judaism to the Mennonites and Unitarian Universalists — filed a federal court lawsuit Tuesday challenging a Trump administration move giving immigration agents more leeway to make arrests at houses of worship.
OpenAI’s Altman says Musk ‘probably just trying to slow us down’

By Charles Capel and Tom Mackenzie
Feb 11, 2025 8:06 am - OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman rebuffed Elon Musk’s $97.4 billion offer to take control of the artificial-intelligence startup for the second time in less than a day, accusing the world’s richest man of making the bid just to gain a competitive advantage.
JD Vance rails against ‘excessive regulation’ of AI at Paris summit in rebuke to European efforts

By AAMER MADHANI and THOMAS ADAMSON
Feb 11, 2025 7:57 am - U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday warned global leaders and tech industry executives that “excessive regulation” could cripple the rapidly growing artificial intelligence industry in a rebuke to European efforts to curb AI’s risks.
Trump’s latest tariff plans on steel, aluminum and other imports are spreading uncertainty

By JOSH BOAK
Feb 10, 2025 2:39 pm - President Donald Trump plans to on Monday formally announce 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports as part of an aggressive effort to remake the existing terms of world trade that so far has compounded economic uncertainty.
So long, penny! Trump orders US to ditch 1-cent coin after decades of complaints

By ALAN SUDERMAN
Feb 10, 2025 2:36 pm - The lowly penny, the forgotten mainstay of coin jars and car cupholders everywhere, may soon be no more.
Member of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show won’t face charges for flag protest

Feb 10, 2025 1:27 pm - The cast member who displayed the Palestinian flag with the word “GAZA” in protest during Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show will not face charges, New Orleans police said Monday.

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